1:56 PM

Well, I finally got wireless working on Sarantium (my desktop) under Red Hat 9.0 using a Netgear MA301 adapter with a MA401 PCMCIA card. I finally gave up on the GUI, Googled on “netgear MA301 ‘red hat’ linux”, and went for the following:

su
/sbin/modprobe hermes
/sbin/modprobe orinoco
/sbin/modprobe orinoco_plx
/sbin/iwconfig eth1 essid NETWORKSSID
/sbin/iwconfig eth1 enc WEPKEY

I then checked in the redhat-config-network gui and - huzzah! - the card was active. Hooray for the command line!